Middletown News

Newly released police records show a suicidal Maryland father left loving goodbye notes to the wife and three children he killed in April.

The Carroll Manor Volunteer Fire Co. will host a quarter auction from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday at its Adamstown station on Adams Street.

Man arrested after chase A Boonsboro man who sped away from a traffic stop on Monday faces charges of fleeing and eluding, possession of heroin, speeding and reckless driving, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office reports.

Sometimes, in the summer, all you want for supper is a nice soup and a salad. Readers found two good choices at area restaurants - hearty soups that are fairly easy to make, substantial enough for a light meal and very tasty.

Hundreds of people were in Middletown Community Park on Saturday evening for Middletowna TMs Independence Day Celebration.

Family members and neighbors alike were shocked at the news Christopher Wood had killed his wife, Francie Billotti-Wood, and their three children before taking his own life in April.

Three of them were anti-depressants. The Middletown man who killed his family and then took his own life in April was taking seven different medications, including three anti-depressants. That's according to a toxicology report released to the Frederick County Sheriff's Office.

Frederick County sheriffa TMs deputies gather in April at the house on South Jefferson and Washington streets in Middletown.

Their bodies were found in by the wife's father, according to police. CBS The Frederick County Sheriff's office says an autopsy found a father involved in a Middletown murder-suicide that claimed the lives of his wife and their three young children had prescription drugs in his system, but not alcohol.

From the Frederick County Sheriff's Office: Today, 06/24/2009, the Frederick County Sheriffs Office received the autopsy report for Christopher Alan Wood, age 34 of Middletown.

As Frederick County Dairy Princess, Brittany Arnold seizes every opportunity to speak about dairy farmers.

Marge Lyburn isn't wasting any time before she starts enjoying a well-earned retirement from Frederick County Public Schools.

Free State secondary schools rank very high in Newsweek's annual 'America's Top High Schools' edition.

When Sandra Brown's husband died in December, she decided that the PT-26 Fairchild aircraft he flew for about 10 years should return to the area where it was built.

Louise Virginia Snodgrass, who represented parts of Frederick and Washington counties in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1995 through 2003, died Friday at the age of 66 after a long battle with breast cancer.

Louise V. Snodgrass was known for her love of Middletown and other municipalities, and her dedication to helping people in any way she could.

Middletown High School junior Linda Minnick and Chesapeake Bay Foundation educator Adam Wickline shake crabs out of a trap during a field trip the students took to Fox's Island, Va., last week.

In May, Walkersville town commissioners requested a meeting with Frederick County officials to talk about cutting the suburban fire tax rate, citing a $4 million surplus in the county fire tax budget projections for fiscal 2010.

Kesra Hoffman grew up an only child with her mother and father in an old farmhouse in Middletown , set a half mile back from a small country road and situated on a wooded hillside.

Lisa Allen said the decision to ride in the annual Great Bicycle Tour of the C&O Canal sponsored by the San Mar Children's Home in July was easy.